4:53 p.m. The video is done and court is done for the day. Court resumes Friday at 8:30 a.m.

4:17 p.m. Ponce-Rocha told officers in the taped interview that he left the restaurant the morning of Schneller’s death to pick up a co-worker from the same apartment complex where Schneller and the Ramirez brothers lived. Ponce-Rocha said the trip took him 20 minutes, but surveillance video at the restaurant shows he was gone for 36 minutes, police said. Police say the trip should have taken 12 minutes.

Officers in the video did not seem satisfied with Ponce-Rocha’s lack of an explanation for why he was away from work so long or why he changed his sweatshirt while he was gone. Prosecutors said in their opening statements Wednesday that Schneller’s hair was found on the sweatshirt.

Ponce-Rocha is arrested at the end of the interview at the request of immigration officials because he is living in the U.S. illegally. He is not charged with a crime until several days later.

3:45 p.m. Jurors just watched 10 minutes of video of two officers trying to take a close-up picture of Ponce-Rocha’s hands with a digital camera. Ponce-Rocha had a cut on his thumb that he claimed he got while cutting an onion.

3:06 p.m. The video starts with Ponce-Rocha sitting in a chair, somewhat slouched and looking very relaxed. Buckner and Ponce-Rocha talk about who works in the kitchen at El Tequila Salsa restaurant in Rib Mountain.

Ponce-Rocha also tells Buckner that Hugo Ramirez called him and said that Schneller was dead. Hugo Ramirez is Sebastian’s brother and the Ramirez brothers and Schneller lived together in Wausau.

Buckner tells Ponce-Rocha that his not under arrest or in trouble before the interview starts.

2:40 p.m. Detective Buckner was questioned about how he recovered the plastic bag with the cell phone from the garbage bin and examined the contents of the bag. After a brief break, the jurors will watch Ponce-Rocha’s videotaped interview with police. The video will take two hours, prosecutors said.

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2:21 p.m. I have watched Raul Ponce-Rocha for almost two days now and I have yet to see him demonstrate any emotion or expression during his trial. He appears to very attentive to the witnesses, but I have not seen him flinch, shake his head, cry, smile, make a noise — nothing.

I have no clue what he is thinking or what he feels, but Ponce-Rocha appears to not be visibly moved by the words shared or pictures shown during the first two days of the trial. I have not yet seen him speak to his two attorneys, but then again, I’m not watching him constantly either.

1:59 p.m. Judge Brady broke out his gavel this afternoon.

Brady banged his gavel twice after some people were talking in the back of the courtroom. Brady reminded observers that talking is not allowed in the courtroom during testimony.

Brady gave a warning Wednesday — without using the gavel — to observers who were talking.

1:45 p.m. The jurors will be watching a video of Ponce-Rocha’s interview with Wausau Police.

Sebastian said that Ponce-Rocha was in his bedroom with Sebastian as the two were getting ready for a Halloween party. At the birthday party, Breanna was sleeping and Ponce-Rocha was never in Sebastian and Breanna’s bedroom, Sebastian said.

Ponce-Rocha never hugged or had physical contact with Breanna or was alone in the bedroom on either occasion, Sebastian testified.

Sebastian is done testifying. Wausau Police Detective Cord Buckner will testify next. Buckner was the officer who found Schneller’s cell phone in the garbage bin.

1:02 p.m. Lunch break is done and Sebastian is back on the witness stand.

11:47 a.m. Sebastian said he sent Schneller four text messages that she did not return. Sebastian said he then tried to call her four times to discuss a change in plans for when they would pick up her car that was repaired, but Schneller never answered.

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Sebastian testified that he and Schneller texted often and it was unusual for her to not return texts or phone calls.

11:40 a.m. Attorneys have asked Sebastian about what he was doing the morning of Schneller’s death, which was pretty much getting up for work, showering and sending her a few text messages. Sebastian has not said anything too noteworthy yet in his testimony.

The crowd in the courtroom is smaller today. Seventeen people who appear to all be family or friends of Breanna Schneller are observing the trial, including Schnellers parents and brother. That total does not include court security or district attorney’s office staff who are in court. About 25 people were in the courtroom on Wednesday.

11:18 a.m. The attorneys have asked most witnesses how they knew Schneller. Sebastian was emotional when he gave his response.

“She was my best friend. She was the love of my life. She was my fiancee,” Sebastian said.

11:10 a.m. Lotharius’s testimony was very short. Lotharius said she and Schneller sent several texts that morning.

Jose Sebastian Ramirez, who goes by Sebastian, is now testifying. Schneller and Sebastian were engaged to be married and were living together in Wausau with Sebastian’s brother, Hugo.

11:05 a.m. Britany Lotharius, Schneller’s best friend in high school is now testifying. Lotharius said she and Schneller were texting the morning of Schneller’s death.

10:47 a.m. Dunbar said DCI agents had technology to send a signal to Breanna’s cell phone that allowed agents to get general coordinates for the phone’s location near Rib Mountain Drive and Highway NN in Rib Mountain. Agents were able to later narrow the location of the phone to a “cardboard only” garbage container behind the El Tequila Salsa restaurant.

A detective lifted the lid of the garbage container and saw a white plastic bag inside, Dunbar said. The detective called Breanna’s cell phone and saw a light flash from inside the bag, Dunbar testified. The bag was removed and police later found the cell phone, two pairs of Breanna’s underwear and a pair of mismatched gloves inside the bag.

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Dunbar did not know exactly how the DCI agents were able to get the location of the cell phone. I have not heard if the DCI agent who got the phone coordinates will testify.

10:28 a.m. Dunbar is testifying about how the Wisconsin Division of Criminal Investigation helped Wausau Police find Schneller’s cell phone, which was later found in a garbage bin behind a Rib Mountain restaurant.

This testimony is a welcome relief from the graphic descriptions and photos during the testimony about the autopsy. Several of Schneller’s family members left the courtroom, apparently unable to control their emotions or did not want to hear how the teen was killed.

10:19 a.m. Wausau Police Lt. Craig Dunbar is now testifying. Dunbar is a lieutenant in the department’s detective bureau.

9:58 a.m. Dr. Corliss’ testimony is now done. Court is taking a break and will be back at 10:15 a.m.

9:33 a.m. Corliss said Schneller’s cause of death was complex homicidal violence consisting of sharp and blunt-force injuries. Corliss testified that all the injuries Schneller suffered, including being beaten with an iron and stabbed with a knife, contributed to her death.

A stab wound to Schneller’s chest severed her carotid artery and would have caused her to suffer heart attack-like symptoms, Corliss said. He estimated that she would have died in little more than a minute from that injury.

9:10 a.m. Corliss said that Schneller suffered “innumerable” sharp-force injuries or stab wounds, to her face. She also suffered 14 stab wounds to her head and neck, four to six stab wounds to her upper back, a stab wound to her abdomen, and multiple stab wounds to her chest. A broken tip of a knife blade also was found in Schneller’s face, which Corliss said he only found by using an X-ray.

Schneller also had several stab wounds to the back of her hands, Corliss said.

“To see (cuts) on the back of hands might well be consistent with defensive posturing,” Corliss said while using his hands to demonstrate a person covering the top of their head and body.

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8:57 a.m. Dr. Corliss has taken the stand. He said his job is to determine the cause and manor of death when conducting an autopsy.

Jurors are seeing photographs taken during Schneller’s autopsy, including the stab wounds, cuts and bruising she suffered. Some of the photos are rather graphic.

Corliss has done autopsies on a number of people who died or were killed in central Wisconsin, including:• Sally Pergolski — Her son is accused of killing Pergolski in June 2010 and then trying to make her death look like a drowning in Lincoln County.• Marcella Clark — Her son, Larry Clark, is accused of shooting his mother and hiding her corpse in November in Adams County.• Nicole Hedges — Hedges died May 2, 2009 of a heroin overdose in Merrill. Two people were charged in connection with her death.• Larry Johnson  Johnson was stabbed to death May 29, 2008 in Weston by Charles Mattson, who has since been convicted.

8:32 a.m. While blogging on Wednesday, I remembered that the Schneller family started the Breanna’s Smile Foundation.

The foundation, according to its website, is a non-profit organization designed to make a difference in the lives of individuals, families and communities. Through ongoing awareness, education and motivation, we will build and strengthen leadership skills and encourage positive choices to fulfill dreams and goals.